I got you two guys right, Red Hat allows anyone who builds a livecd to use Fedora Logos and Fedora Trademarks, or are there some restrictions? On 4/18/06, Mark Webbink <mwebbink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Immediate answer - the Fedora trademark guidelines pertain to the specific > FEDORA mark and logo, not the Red Hat marks (RED HAT, Shadowman logo, etc.). > No permission is granted to use RED HAT or other Red Hat marks with the > Fedora Project or Fedora Project technologies. As to appropriate use of the > Fedora marks, longer answer to follow. > > Mark > > Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > Hello there, I wish to find answers to certain confusions within the > Kadischi community concerning the Kadischi Project since the "No Fedora > Foundation" announcement and the Fedora Live CD/DVD intention. Legal > --------- Based on the 'Legal' materials on the fedoraproject wiki, I've > published http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Legal with > the approval of GDK. This wiki page defines certain legal issues for the > Livecd tester and as well as the Livecd creator. Nevertheless, there's still > confusion concerning the Fedora Logo usage and the trademark 'Fedora', > specialy that many are building their own livecd. [quoting] "Red Hat does > not permit or consent to any use of its trademarks in any manner that is > likely to cause confusion by implying association with or sponsorship by Red > Hat" There is a lack of guidelines concerning the use of word "Red Hat" in a > 1. - personalised livecd based on Fedora but still complies to the Fedora > Policies 2. - personalised livecd based on Fedora but does NOT comply to the > Fedora Policies Should the both creators of such livecds strip the words > 'Fedora' and 'redhat' completely from their product ? or only the creator > (2) should strip them off. For me it's clear enough, that Red Hat isn't > associated or a sponsor for those livecds. Hence should we state clearly > that neither the Fedora Project nor Red Hat approve the usage of Fedora Logo > in those LiveCDs ? But how about, if I or Kadischi/Contributors wants to > bring forward a _official_ live CD, does Red Hat still associated of a > sponsor for such livecd ? Any other idea that you might think that > Kadischi/Legal wiki page should entail for the benefit of everyone ? Fedora > Live CD/DVD --------- [quoting] Live CD (Kadischi) -- Lots of people like > the idea of this project, but there are still some problems to solve. We > should empower people to take the reins, but if they hit a roadblock we need > to find a way to assign them some help, without simply (a) taking the > project away, or (b) saddling Red Hat developers with new work. DECIDED: > Jeremy will take up the cause for Kadischi. I've started a discussion on the > live-cd mailing list late last week: Kadischi: roadmap from Board meeting > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2006-April/msg00096.html > I just want to hear more on this subject, (preferably on the livecd mailing > list) what is intended and how things will get moving ? - who builds the > livecds ? me ? - how to make the livecd useful for Fedora ambassadors ... - > infrastructure for uploading livecds? (last time, I was hard to find > somebody to grant me some space) This is really something new. There was > never an official livecd before for the Fedora Project, i think Its time we > start to do brainstorming about it. Also, we should be clear enough about > the definitions: Kadischi : Kadischi is a Fedora Live CD creator tool. > (shouldn't be confused as a Fedora Live CD) Kadischi Project : Kadischi > Project is an initiative to build and make available a Fedora Live CD. maybe > many things of these have been discussed before that Im not aware of. > regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > fedora-advisory-board mailing list > fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-advisory-board mailing list > fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board > > > -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
